Thursday, March 25, 2004

Walkin' Wilson, Hackin' Wilson

After 12 spring games, Jack Wilson has a .438 OBP. 5 walks and 27 at-bats. His OBP is 100 points higher than his batting average. That will do, Jack. (See previous post). Raul Mondesi has been raking in the walks, too, with 7 walks and 45 at-bats. For those of you scoring at home, one walk per 10 at-bats is a handy measure of a good walk rate. (A player who hits .275 in 600 at-bats with 60 walks and, say, 2 HBPs, has a .342 OBP). Randall Simon has 3 walks and 40 at-bats. Not so good, sausage man. His walk rate (7%) is surpassed in suckitude only by that of Craig Wilson (6%) and Rob Hackovihack (3%). By comparison, Walkin' Wilson and Raul Mondesi have spring walk rates of 16%. Craig Wilson can be forgiven for the low walk rate since he's hitting .320 with a .660 slugging percentage. In other words, he's waiting for a pitch to hit, getting it, and hitting it hard. More players like that, please. One other thing. For sure, luck is a factor here. For all I know, Walkin' Wilson faced Oliver Perez on Tuesday and took Wednesday off, and Hackin' Wilson took Tuesday off and faced Greg Maddux on Wednesday. Oh wait, Oliver Perez is on our side.

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